2025-11-08
25 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
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We begin in Sudan where the government has called for guarantees from the international community that paramilitary rebels,
the rapid support forces,
will stick to a ceasefire they signed up to on Thursday before the army does the same.
Hopes of a pause in the fighting have been dented by reports of drone strikes near a military base and a power station in the army-controlled capital of Khartoum.
The two sides have been coming under growing international pressure to agree a ceasefire.
But Sudan's ambassador to South Africa, Osman Abu Fatima Adam Muhammad,
said the RSF had broken previous truces and exploited them to gain more territory.
From our experience, we had many truces in the beginning of the war.
But every time we made the ceasefire, there was no respect for the ceasefire from the militia.
Actually,
they are using this truce to position themselves in new areas and to make new tactics against the government.
Our Africa correspondent, Mayeni Jones,
was at the Ambassadors News Conference in Pretoria and told me more about it.
It tells us that there's a lot of skepticism within the Sudanese government as to whether the RSF will stick to the terms of the ceasefire.
As the ambassador said in the clip in your introduction,
there have been ceasefire proposals before that both sides have said that they would adhere to,
but he claims that every single time the RSF would seize the truces as opportunities to gain more territory or to smuggle in more weapons or to find a way to have an advantage over the government forces.